Comments on: Art for geeks.

Art for geeks.

Dipsomaniac — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:41:44 -0800

Paul the Wine Guy explains art, for geeks.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:07:57 -0800

At first I wasn't too taken with it, but damn if his Mona Lisa isn't the best Gioconda since L. H. O. O. Q.

By: freshwater_pr0n

freshwater_pr0n — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:31:57 -0800

I saw the FPP, and I thought, "this is great." So many people have art absolutely *killed* for them in ineptly taught high school or required college courses. And then I clicked on the link, and saw that it went to a Flickr set of facile jokes at the expense of old warhorses, and I thought, "this sucks and is not good." And then I giggled a bit. Clever. [this is good, just not in the way I expected it to be.]

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:32:53 -0800

And David's Napoleon made me cry with joy. Stuart's Washington was really funny too... also brought back happy memories of when LucasArts was more than just movie franchise games.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:08:10 -0800

RTFM

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:29:00 -0800

Not bad, not bad. Thanks, Dipsomaniac.

By: m0nm0n

m0nm0n — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:06:28 -0800

Huh, I thought this would be something better than lame jokes superimposed on famous works of art. I guess the title mislead me.

By: sotonohito

sotonohito — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:24:55 -0800

Also, what true geek uses <> as the logical not operator? That's VB syntax... Real geeks use != as the logical not operator. C-like syntax FTW!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:41:42 -0800

I'd say !(this.image instanceof Pipe) instead. It's not Ceci n'est pas le mot 'pipe', after all. Heh.

By: poe

poe — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:47:01 -0800

!=|

By: oblio_one

oblio_one — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:22:17 -0800

I think the title about art 'explained' for geeks demonstrates a sad undercurrent in American society of disrespect for people who are academically/technically inclined (what they don't 'get' art since they're too busy with computers? fuck that noise) I also think the broken image tag one was hilarious and that this is a good post.